What Does a Grants Management System Do? It’s difficult to think about your own needs or evaluate the systems that are available without a solid understanding of what types of features are possible and which are common. More is not always better. The right system for your organization is the one that best supports your needs, not necessarily the one that has the most features. Feature-rich solutions can also be needlessly complex and may present an unnecessarily high learning curve for your staff. Keep in mind that, during implementation, vendors can both configure (adjust settings for existing features) and customize (change or build new features) systems to meet your needs. A few systems can be almost completely tailored to your needs with custom fields, labels, interfaces, processes, and functionality, but they require the vendor’s involvement in the customization. This can be useful for organizations with unique needs, but it can be very expensive and more difficult to support down the road. Before you pay to customize a system to your existing processes, revisit the processes to see if they can be streamlined or improved. If you choose to have a vendor customize the system, make sure that vendor is experienced…